FreeLists / open-beos-printing / [open-beos-printing] Re: Open Tasks for PDF Writer

["Simon Gauvin" <gauvins@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't really know how to add to this, but I'm still going to work on the GUI
 to make it better, but I certainly can help with 7 :-)

>> Here is an incomplete list of open tasks:
>> 1. bitmap creation for colorspace !=3D B=5FARGB32
>> 2. Type1 identification
>> 3. alpha channel support
>> 4. pattern
>> 5. clip to inverse BPicture
>> 6. clip to string
>> 7. documentation
>
>By 2. Type1 indentification, do you mean dynamic type1 fonts declaration to
 PDFlib=3F Like the stuff I'd for TrueType fonts file=3F
>If that correct, I'll take this point 2.
>BTW, I've already start... need to fix a segfault bug ;-)
>
>> 1, 2, 6 should be easy to implement;
>
>Well, point 7 too! :-)
>
>> 3 is supported by PDF 1.4 but not by PDFlib; temporary solution
>> could be to render an entire page into a bitmap (or slices..) if we
>> want to support it now; I vote against it or at least I will not 
>> implement it
>
>I'll vote against too.
>We could wait PDFlib add support to this feature of PDF 1.4.
>*Or*, we could hack something, like dithering the alpha channel into a binary
 mask. Uh. 
>
>> 4 is supported by PDFlib and probably also by xpdf/BePDF
>> 5 I have no solution for that
>> 
>> Who wants to do what=3F
>
>I'm taking point 2.
>Okay, give me this point 1 too, bitmaps are fun and I've some experience since
 bubblejet rasterization engine! ;-)
>
>> I could do 1, 2, 4 and 6, but I can only contribute to this project 
>> until the end of this month and have to postpone all my open source 
>> activities until later this year.
>
>I (we) perfectly understand. As main contributor to this project, you're the
 best PDF features aware member of the team: /me think it's better if you focus
 on point 4 and 6, which, for one at least, don't really know how to implement.
>
>On same topic, what about a v0.5 release on BeBits=3F
>
>Philippe.
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 Simon Gauvin,
 Dalhousie University
 gauvins@xxxxxxxxx